on the. video on demand. missions for now with all of your. ministers put the libyan crisis in this so it's towards imposing a no fly zone those despoil resolution and fierce opposition from locals to any foreign intervention join me tell your bushel for all the details for us. and discussions of all we want to do with levy are hard to avoid does the u.s. spies the president needs russian leaders among other tool pigs joseph biden hopes to woo support for possible amount of american military involvement more interested human. and congressional hearings on the radicalization of america's muslims prepared to start really look at what lies behind it and the fears that it's little

more than a religious witch hunt. by from our studios in moscow you're watching r t thanks for joining us well there's mounting pressure for action in libya after fresh clashes between rebels and the government shelling and airstrikes from colonel gadhafi supporters have pushed the opposition back well more than a thousand people are thought to have died since the uprising broke out almost a month ago locals are still united in their determination to keep out foreign intervention later on thursday nato defense officials and e.u. foreign ministers will meet in brussels to discuss what moves they can beg our correspondent daniel bushell is there for us. later from supposed to here in brussels are meeting to decide on the any. course of action the military

humanitarian the u.s. defense secretary robert gates is also here in brussels and he will brief officials and colleagues on how he sees action should be taken on wednesday a top pentagon official said that any action. should be taken under the umbrella of nato that's america's position as it stands now and britain and france are discussing i'm trying to get a resolution a common front on imposing a no fly zone across the libyan airspace. on the premise of humanitarian support for the country i spoke to russia's envoy to nato in the tree recalls in and here's what he had to say about the situation it's like. it's like in russian classical theater even the first act of a performance there's a gun on the wall it's you to shoot in the second and you can militia of weapons and military forces in the region could lead to war and that's why pumping up the

syria may reach the point of no return when it becomes hard to explain why it was necessary to militarize citizens minds there's a real danger in using the stance against the libyan air bases to deprive gadhafi he's advantages the legal head of state then there will be attempts to legitimize the rebels to make it seem to the outside the power has power from could duthie to the rebels there's no common fronts let alone between nato and nor nato countries even within the nato alliance there's several disagreements pretty openly last night britain's foreign secretary foreign minister if you like william hague. the opposition is holding to the intervention of foreign forces he said they still need to go on an international support for any move and that international support is not there at the moment italy considered one of libya's closest allies of course of former colony of italy is that. colonel gadhafi regime needs more breathing space

it really needs to be given time and discussion and negotiation should be exhausted all such options should be exhausted before any military action takes place for the country's leader colonel gadhafi has come out very strongly saying that the libyan people will oppose any military intervention by foreign forces he said the libyan people would rise up as one against any such actions he said himself that his forces would respond strongly to any such imposition of a no fly zone little on any military measures and it came as he bombed all tanks in the in the country of course libya is no rich country and the current crisis has led to strong heightening of oil prices which of course is having a damaging effect on the world economy let's listen to what russia's invoice had to say on the issue of the situation on the ground in libya. of course we've noted

that in the recent situation in the middle east and north africa social networks are actively used for organizing rebellious anti government movements i'm sure there is a mastermind behind it first of all reports from all major to be companies with their own information sources to libya contain many words but little for which secondly views are definitely proportioned those for gadhafi and narrowly presented well the protesters and widely reprise and it's this help are like opinion is being formed our correspondent docks on a boycott now reports from being cause the about how the lack of control in the country could have devastating long term effects. after the liberation chance the rattle of kalashnikovs is the most common sound in the. ever since rebels these weapons the pause in eastern libya rifles became the ultimate symbol of masculinity that every young man in this city once one thing in common. between more moderate our fi and the force the struggling town c.p.u.

is a fascination with the arms believe in leader a developed a liking for kalashnikov rifle so much so that he even had a k forty seven munition plant built here in libya that runs the slant produced an hour hailing all across eastern libya on the frontlines and beyond the young man with smartphones have become a fixture on the streets of benghazi they're eager to show them off and often slap happy in their handling of the arms can a soldier from the been the as the garrison who joined their freising says many of the stellar rebels don't have any experience with arms but he says is laid out by their passionate determination to the world who will fight until the last bullet to the last drop of blood god is on. the speed you've been ghazi is still living off of the revolutionary fever from dusk till dawn people congregate on the

city's main square calling for gadhafi to go most of the factories are closed the only people still working a shop owners there is good no good no good. many people no people and public servants like these traffic police officer and despite the loss of control over is to leave there to get a government continues to pay salaries to those employed by the state of the years i received my last paycheck about ten days ago but there is nothing to thank you duffy for my salary is just two hundred fifty dinars with a can barely support my family education and certainty of the last few weeks are already exerting their toll on public health in gaza a psychiatric hospital is now flooded with patients because preexisting conditions were exacerbated by their unrest nowadays because of the uprising lots of people day he is suffering from the so-called banging his shoulders. some of our

patient old surviving relapses from their previous mental problems now because of the. uprising of because of the shooting. hated and ridiculed doubtingly being the most valuable asset for the opposition movement as that hatred pulls people together for the time being it to united's those who stand here serving in his government and the victims of his persecution yet their chance for free leave i yet to be augmented by a clear vision of how to achieve it it is very hard to try to determine who could be the real charismatic leader the real strong structure that could come in on the ground they could see well i am well known by the leave you have a program of some horizons and i will be able to achieve or to be the alternative again or that will help achieving better perspectives and

a better horizon in libya people in gaza are now living of their savings sharing whatever little they have most of them are confident that one is good enough and leaves the bright future will dawn on them but if past revolutions are anything to go by their abundance of arms and hordes of idly roaming man could mean exactly the opposite. of what r.t.e. been gazi libya. and a pen a journalist keith harmon snow says the u.s. is pumping out anti gadhafi propaganda to foster support for what he calls america's oil operation in libya. what we're getting is a pro u.s. program to be on one side picture of the situation which kills the media with the idea that there's freedom fighters involved in libya and that there is a government regime and atrocious terrorist government for the last one hundred seventy roughly this is nonsense and maybe it was an established government whether

we like them or not just is north korea and iran are established governments where we like them or not or the civilian government and their what's happening against them is a war of aggression we're serving one side to portray the idea that could happen is a terrorist in all these people have been killed in freedom fighters involved freedom fighter language freedom fighter hasn't been used since the attacks against the by the contras against nicaragua in one thousand nine hundred. fourteen the involvement of italy france and britain since one thousand nine hundred seventy since nine hundred fifty nine when he was discovered and the u.s. hasn't had a piece of that so the idea is to convey continue to convince the american public that genocide is happening in libya which is absolute nonsense and therefore we need to take it you know the all powerful right american role is to go out there and save somebody that needs saving when actually we're involved in the killing because we're i believe we're supporting the rebels in libya well i just over an hour a former british ambassador to libya talks to our team all over miles tells us that

many of the stories coming from libya don't ring true with the real situation and the talk of a no fly zone is premature i hear some of what we'll hear later on. right from the beginning of the stories of attacks on civilian populations but i don't know of a single authenticated case i think we've all probably had the experience i don't know some of. the media correspondents are telephoning anyone they can find in the story you get from everybody is we're right here where i am the same shooting and it sounds nasty but i'm not going outside to look and yes i have heard stories of some of them in my area that seems to be the. so i don't believe it really i think is disproportionate for. all the subject of international involvement in libya is going to be tough to avoid for the u.s. vice president who is on day two of his visit to moscow joe biden is likely to see

kremlin support on possible moves while he's also due to meet prime minister vladimir putin in just a few hours. is following his visit there carter was just going into this meeting could remind us where russia stands on libya and what exactly washington expects from the kremlin. and washington expects from the kremlin that it could support possible military action in libya the u.s. along with several other countries are considering imposing a no fly zone over libya and russia strongly opposes that plan just recently both the president and the foreign minister recently said that position that russia will be against any international intervention in libya's domestic affairs and russia has a veto on the u.n. security council which means that without russia saying yes to this no fly zone plan it could not be enforced but another question is what russia could be potentially for it by washington in exchange for its voice as it once was the case

with with north korea and with iran however it brushes very reasonable when it comes to the crisis in the middle east and in need just today the kremlin press of the office reported that russia russian president signed a ban on any acts for a doll for military hardware and military equipment to libya. ok well it has to be said that this has been a long planned visit so what else is joe biden hoping to achieve. by that will be meeting with prime minister putin in several hours today will be also holding talks with the opposition representatives with civil society leaders so chanda is very. robust and the focus seems to be on building stronger economic ties and needed political thought. while the u.s. . trade with russia stupid less than four percent last year and this is way beyond the potential the two sides are working on that yesterday joe biden oversaw signing

of a major deal between the u.s. years aviation carry avoiding and russia's air of florida board some two billion dollars he also blasted president believes mordor news ation mission as he was visiting skolkovo the russian version of the future russian version of the silicone valley and also w t o joseph biden expresses support for russia's eighteen year africa to join the world trade organization which is much more than any other country and it is hoped that by the and obese hero of his the russian president hopes that his country could enter the organization finally all just going back a little bit it's been over two years since joe biden said that it's time to hit the reset button with russia it's been said a lot of times since then well has there been much tangible progress in that time. till it seems so it seems that they're trying to leave there was sad to new highs and indeed it was joseph biden was the old throughout the sprays which became

legendary and when expressing the need for these was set in relations with russia he also quoted his father who used to say never put a man in a corner where the only way out is over you or in other words that he's a jew you'll track approach this is how the white house describes it which is origin agreements where interests converge and the greens to disagree in areas where they don't and now two years on after barack obama to. the presidential office we can see the first practical results of that approach like better cooperation on afghanistan iran north korea signing of the new strategic arms reduction. treaty signing of the nuclear military cooperation agreement as far as afghanistan is concerned just yesterday present ready why did an agreement which allows for. transit up military hardware and personal ghana stand through the

russian territories there are some pretty cheap and very sensitive issues at the moment on the table like we sold to france and europe but it seems that it's one of the only remaining between moscow and washington ok well thank you very much for that update r.t. if you go through the integral reporting from the russian capital. our political analysts troitsky joins me to talk more about joe biden's visit thank you very much for joining me in the studio well coming into this is washington seriously thinking of convincing moscow to change its stance towards libya what arguments could biden put forward. well i. think biden does have a mandate to negotiate some kind of coordination with more school on the situation in libya but the. white understand and i think we are not going to to go there. a few days down the road towards exactly president

biden would be asking. to do with regard to libya i don't think he has a mandate to ask for russia's support for any sort of intervention into libya because there's no agreement within the united states and of course within the age or whether it should intervene in to leave. but coordination i think will be on the table arms embargo possibly abstaining from. support for the libyan regime and so forth that's going to be negotiated but that's normal diplomatic ordination ok well by meeting russian opposition leaders in moscow was well might that have an impact with a touch of the u.s. with the russian government. well you know the gender of any visit by a top u.s. official to russia would inevitably include a meeting with civil society representatives and so i think should russian top

officials do when they come to washington. that's you know business as usual and of course many people would argue for russian opposition figures it's not the best thing to do to ask u.s. consul parts to sanction their russian opponents but that said i think it's very nature thing to do to hear from civil society representatives in more school what they have to see about the current political situation russia ok let's move on now to trade now trade between russia and the u.s. is around twenty three billion dollars and that's why. every small given their size and given their trade with other partners in the world what needs to change politically in order for trade to advance. well you know i think it's a difficult task really to breach the. geographic distance between russia and the united states it's not so easy for two geographically distant countries

to engage in. mutual trade but i think. u.s. businessmen are on the lookout for investment opportunities. for trade opportunities with russia and so are the russian businessmen i think both sides need to advance on the way towards ensuring guarantees to those businesses that are willing to engage russia needs to do a lot with regard of corruption and creating a better investment climate here but the united states also some steps to implement such as the lifting of the jackson verdict men meant. possibly encouraging us businessmen to go out in this and russia and also removing political barriers removing concerns with any sort of political motivations russian business

and me have been investing in the united states so that there needs political political momentum that needs political impetus but i think once the favorable conditions on the ground in russia especially in russia are created business will russia to exploit those of interest i think it is very quickly now to wrap up your assessment do you think be so-called reset button is being pressed fully. well it could have been much better really and we have seen periods of very bad relationship between russia and the united states over the past three years i think the most important development is that russia the united states have started to talk to each other gods important issues not only in but literal relationship but in global politics in general and i think russia yes ordination although it's the negotiations on the situation in libya is a vivid example there so i do think the reset is on the way towards realizing its

potential if you will thank you very much for your analysis and your insight that to me in a political analyst thank you my position. i now hearings will soon get underway in the u.s. congress over the radicalization of american muslims well they're being led by homeland security chairman peter king who says there are vital to protect the country but as artie's kill him for reports critics say there are disturbing parallels to america's notorious political witch hunts of the one nine hundred fifty s. . during america's second red scare this was the accusation to answer. a lot of the farmers today it's this one muslim leaders are not doing enough to cooperate with law enforcement there's actually been instances of the mobs instructing the people in their mosques not to cooperate with law enforcement accusations of disloyalty subversion treason made not by some pundit you're

a wonder of radical islam versus like the neighborhood you live in and the monster operates there but by the chairman of the congressional homeland security committee republican pete king who is launching his highly publicized hearings on the radicalization of muslims in america we know how evil his enemy is and we have to confront it and to me it's a principle to all muslims when we don't single out islamic terrorists it's almost as if we were afraid to insult muslims because we're targeting the terrorists through their roads but king business is the critics who say the hearings unfairly single out muslims arabs criticism seriously because they are just me jerk liberal left wing reaction and this is the politically correct establishment despite criticism from the right and the left at the mere announcement of a hearings king says he won't back down going to name those names we're going to have expert witnesses and we'll do what we have to do which worries critics like

history professor alan trekker we've always had our scapegoats today it's muslims in the one nine hundred fifty s. it was communists they see the congressman from new york is following in the footsteps of the senator from wisconsin joseph mccarthy focusing on people's associations in this case religious rather than political but calling them. in public and exposing them to some kind. sanctions whether it's just males whether it is dismissals are workplace sanctions. so that despite muslim leaders cooperation with the f.b.i. they're continuously viewed as the enemy especially since the end of the cold war the worse thrives on war and it throws conflict there for.

us so we became. the new carmen is according to a department of homeland security study islamic extremists are seen as a threat in thirty one states while neo nazi and white supremacist cells groups left out of king's homeland security hearings are seen as a threat in all but for now only talk about terrorism in the united states what they have been the terrorists you know some poor pathetic not in arizona timothy mcveigh in oklahoma city these are the people who are killing americans and. muslims for critics on the right and the laughs the echoes of mccarthyism are troubling last month king also introduced the see something say something alex designed to prevent citizens from lawsuits when they report suspicious activity but critics say it amounts to little more than informing on each other much as they did during mccarthyism and the cold war killing ford r. t. washington d.c. that's all for now to readers here with all the latest in business.

hello and welcome to the business here in our team thanks for joining me well prices edge high on early in early thursday trading after two straight sessions of losses is trading at over one hundred four dollars a barrel brant crude is around one hundred sixteen dollars news about higher than expected start in the u.s. gave some relief to investors on wednesday but escalating piety and leading the way it is cautious much of the biz or production is already offline adding fuel to the flames is the news that gadhafi has bombed oil facilities in the country inflicting

what could be longer term damage to a leader's export capacity. your central bank could be making a grave mistake by tightening its monetary policy that's according to the tories economist known as dr doom the real will be need claims high interest rates may seriously hit the peripheral european countries that are struggling to restore their export competitiveness but the chief economist wrong rushes at the bank says the e.c.b. there's no other options. when central banks do not take action very global inflation perhaps a domestic inflation in many areas including russia starts to get out of control and then we have a very very difficult situation when central banks would have no option but to increase rates by significant. a moment which definitely would that would push many quantum views towards thernstrom because the cost of trade of the cost of money would increase and that would be not helpful from the point of fuel for

coverage. let's take a look at the markets now most asian stock markets are lower on thursday via high oil prices lost nearly one and a half percent and the hang seng is down more than half a percent the south exporters are in the red with sony down point eight percent tejada losing around two percent between billiton and rio tinto forest you are off it we one point three and two percent and energy industrials and financial stocks are also losing ground. here in russia markets finished wednesday's trading session in the red let's look at some individual share those banks were on the rise supported by positive results from bank of america where bank gain around half a percent of them isaac's bank added over seven and a half percent of the repeal and corporate futures away all metal stocks with noyce negotiating over three quarters of a percent and tell me if preferred shares gained eleven percent over the stuff.

investors should be on the lookout the head of equity trading at bt capital told r.t. that a correction is on the horizon for global markets. market will still be first so the price no higher risk well for oil supply disruptions hence higher oil prices stronger ruble and higher valuations russia's costs i think when gas talks will be resilient saying correctional my see. a correction i think is looming in the developed world given that higher rates and inflation are a big concern for global growth. that's all for now next hour find out who talks the list of russia's richest people according to forbes magazine. you're.

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